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The Broad Highway is a novel published in 1910 by English author Jeffery Farnol. Much of the novel is set in Sissinghurst, a small village South East England in Kent.

It was a best-seller, and the number one selling fiction book in the United States in 1911. [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. Alice Payne Hackett. Seventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965, p. 107 (1967) (the lists for 1895-1912 in this volume are derived from the lists published in The Bookman (New York) )
  2. (February 19, 1911). THE BROAD HIGHWAY: A New Writer's Old-Fashioned Novel of the Early Nineteenth Century in England, The New York Times
  3. Shelley, Henry C. (September 7, 1911). Jeffery Farnol and "The Broad Highway", The Independent (New York), p. 523-23